I have 3/4 of the center quilted; the bottom right quarter is unquilted. I have to quilt the border too and choose a binding.
This is the backing fabric. I'm using Superior Rainbows in the bobbin. I hope I can finish this today and get onto something else tomorrow.
My great-niece stopped by last night to show me her first quilt. She said she was the only one in the class that chose batiks to work with. I was very impressed with her choices. She was lucky to have a talented quilter for her teacher too. I recognized her name and have heard a lot of good things about her.
I finally made some decisions about thread and how I wanted to quilt this quilt and got about a third of it done yesterday. I'm not a big fan of clear monofilament thread but with the number of color changes in the fabrics and the irregular width strips I decided it was the best choice. I am following the angle of each strip so as I go from one block into the next the angle sometimes changes midstream. This photo was taken by a window with natural light coming across the quilt. It has some distortion from diagonal quilting and will look much better after being steam pressed from the back when I am done.
Yesterday morning I had to have a plumber come and fix a toilet and a faucet on the bathroom sink. Then I ran errands. When I got home I decided I needed to clean off my long arm table so I can be ready to quilt there too. I had all sorts of stuff draped over the bars and the plastic that I covered it with at the end of May was still over it. One of the things on it was these 3 pieces of hand dyed fabric that my daughter bought for me at a quilt shop in the wine country in California. The fabric is a cotton sateen and the colors are rich and vibrant. Last night my great-niece came over with my sister-in-law to choose a quilt. I didn't know it but she had already made a quilt and she loves batiks. I may be helping her out with her next quilt with my die cutter. This is the quilt she chose.
Several people yesterday commented how they liked the red fabrics I showed. Actually there isn't a red in the bunch. I put the red/pink group from 2 days ago and a gray strip of fabric hoping the camera could pick up the true colors on the group on the right, rust, gold, fuchsia, purple and a few touches of green. It still looks a little red in the photo but in real life it is rust and almost brown. I guess you'll just have to take my word for it. I know computer monitors aren't all alike and some will emphasize colors. My really old laptop in the basement reads the colors pretty true as it is not as bright as the new computers.
I sewed the last 2 borders on the twin quilts. I think they really needed a border to contain all of the shapes.
Here is the other one. They won't get quilted right away because I have about 7 that need to be quilted first. I had hand basted 2 several months ago and they are laying on my guest bed. I don't like to fold them after they have been basted because the layer on the inside of the fold gets a big ridge in it and layers shift. Since I don't have anywhere else to put them if I need the guest bed for a guest, they need to be quilted. I also have a potential sale on another piece and need to finish it right away.
I was looking at the fabrics on the top shelves in my main floor studio and I ran across the beginning of this grouping. I added 6 more fabrics to it. I had a migraine most of the day yesterday so I'm not sure if this is a good group or a migraine group.
The porch pots are loving the cooler weather we have had the last few days, nights from 50-60 degrees and daytime highs only in the 70s. I am enjoying it too!
This coleus is taller than the railing. It is the same variety that I have in the pots in front of the garage. I will have to be sure to take cuttings from this one to keep over the winter.
The quilting in the center is finally done. I am stalled now until I make a decision on the border quilting design.
The monofilament thread was the perfect choice for this quilt with all of the different colors. It behaved perfectly with the Superior Threads Rainbows in the bobbin. If you have trouble with the monofilament thread it might be the combination of the 2 threads you are using that is the problem. 
You can see in this photo that the angle of the pieces in one block isn't always the same as its neighbor block. That is because I used uneven width strips and the angles changed dramatically in some of the blocks because of that.
I am starting a new project (more on that tomorrow) that will use the triangles that I have been cutting with my Accuquilt Studio die cutter. I have been cutting up pieces that aren't full width any more and therefore don't stack nicely with the stash. I will be pulling pieces out of my stash and cutting triangles too so I get a really good variety. Stay tuned.......
